Smith Photographic Returns

Racial Justice and the Time of Photography
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0553-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Engaging contemporary photography by Sally Mann, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and others, Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments come to be known photographically and the ways in which the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Shawn Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Photographic Returns 1
1. Looking Forward and Looking Back: Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass on Photography 16
2. Photographic Remains: Sally Mann at Antietam 34
3. The Scene of the Crime: Deborah Luster 61
4. Photographic Referrals: Lorna Simpson's 9 Props 93
5. Afterimages: Jason Lazarus 112
6. Photographic Reenactments: Carrie Mae Weems's Constructing History 133
7. False Returns: Taryn Simon's The Innocents 152
Coda. A Glimpse Forward: Dawoud Bey's The Birmingham Project 170
Notes 175
Bibliography 213
Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author of At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen and Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture; and coeditor of Photography and the Optical Unconscious and Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity; all also published by Duke University Press.